Outpatients who need medication following a hospital appointment will now benefit from a new pharmacy facility from Boots, which opened on 2 April.
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust’s outpatient pharmacy faced growing demand with nearly 3000 items dispensed every week meaning it had outgrown its previous space.
Chief Pharmacist & Clinical Director of Medicines...
A pink planter has been unveiled outside Derriford Hospital to help raise awareness for the importance of breast screening. The planter, which was unveiled on Monday 9 October to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, was made possible thanks to help and support from The Primrose Foundation, Denholm Industrial Services and Nevada Construction.
The new Bishop of Plymouth has seen first-hand the pressures the NHS is facing on his first visit to Derriford Hospital since he started his new role.
The Rt Rev’d James Grier visited an oncology ward and the hospital chaplaincy, meeting with the team of chaplains and a representative from St Luke’s Hospice.
Bishop James praised the work of the staff he met. “In just one...
Cancer patients and those recovering from cancer treatment are now able to take part in a horticultural healing programme, being offered by the Mustard Tree Macmillan Cancer Support Centre at Derriford Hospital.
The community-based gardening therapy group, Blooming Well, is a new initiative for patients with a cancer diagnosis to promote wellbeing and aid their recovery. The Mustard...
Nine members of staff from University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust will be taking on the Snowdon Challenge in July to raise money for the charity, Sands.
Colleagues from the Ocean Suite at Derriford hospital have decided to trek up Wales biggest mountain, Snowdon, in just one day to raise money for Sands, the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK.
Devon's hospital helipads see 2678 landings out of 20,000 on helipads across the country funded by HELP Appeal
The HELP Appeal, which is the only charity in the country dedicated to funding NHS hospital helipads, announces that over 20,000 landings have been made on the NHS hospital helipads it has funded. Over 13% (2678) of these landings have been made in Devon alone. The HELP...
A man who spent two months on Derriford’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), has returned to say thank you almost 18 years later.
Tom Rowe, who was born prematurely in April 2004, was treated by NICU staff before being allowed home a few months later. Going full circle, his brother, Dr James Rowe, has just completed a placement within the NICU and invited Tom in to say thank you...
A total of 1500 patients with lung and chest problems have now been treated at home by University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust’s Home Ventilation Team.
The service, run from the Chest Clinic at Derriford Hospital, has reached an amazing milestone in the history of home mechanical ventilation, after almost 20 years.
Starting with just 38 patients in 2004, patients originally...
Derriford Hospital has secured national investment to expand its operating capacity, with work set to begin on two new modular operating theatres.
This development has secured funding from the national NHS Elective Recovery Fund to address the major impact of covid on hospital waiting times, as part of the Accelerator Programme.
After the loss of their daughter, Ayla, Kate and Paul Vincent have dedicated themselves to some truly fantastic fundraising for Derriford’s Snowdrop Suite, the special area of Maternity set aside for bereaved parents.
“We received so much fantastic help and we wanted to find a way to pay it forward,” explained Kate, who is also a nurse at Derriford Hospital. “We wanted to give...
